
Saul Sierra Alonso
Bass

Amikaeyla Gaston
Voice

Laurie Antonioli
Director, Jazzschool Vocal Program

Theo Bleckmann
Voice

Lee Brenkman
Sound Technician

Anthony Brown
Drums/ Percussion / Ethnomusicology

Terry Buehler
Physics

Maye Cavallaro
Voice

Matt Clark
Piano / Accompanist

Gerald Cleaver
Drums* Chair, Drum Department

Jeff Denson
Dean of Instruction, CJC; Double and Electric Bass; Chair, Bass Department

Angie Doctor
Voice

Kai Eckhardt
Bass

Ian Faquini
Guitar

Mimi Fox
Guitar

Todd M. Gascon
Business of Music

John Gove
Trombone

Peter Horvath
Piano

Erik Jekabson
Director, Jazzschool at CJC Young Musicians Program; Trumpet

Alam Khan
North Indian Sarode

Jason Levis
Drums, Composition

Frank Martin
Piano, Keyboards

Jeff Marrs
Drums

Kate McGarry
Voice

Paul Mehling
Guitar, Tenor & Plectrum Banjo, Violin, Viola, Bass

Tony Miceli
Vibraphone

Aaron Mobley
Composition & Theory

Hafez Modirzadeh
Theory, Saxophone

Susan Muscarella
Founding President, CJC

Jim Santi Owen
Indian Percussion

Reto Peter
Audio Production; Co-Chair Audio Production Department

Romain Pilon
Guitar

Evan Price
Violin

Glenn Richman
Bass

Brian Rice
Percussion ; Co-chair, Brazilian Jazz Studies Department

John Santos
Percussion

Marcos Silva
Piano; Co-chair, Brazilian Jazz Studies Department

Edward Simon
Piano

Christopher Sullivan
Saxophone

Sheryl Lynn Thomas
Marketing Director, Business of Music — Marketing

Scott Thompson
Bass

Mads Tolling
Violin, Viola

Arjun Verma
Sitar

Katherine Westine
Piano

Michael Zilber
Saxophone

Dann Zinn
Saxophone, Flute
FACULTY RANKINGS
Full Professor: Resident faculty holding a Ph.D. or demonstrating the equivalent. Widely recognized performers and/or academicians in the field of jazz who teach on a regular basis.
Associate Professor: Resident faculty holding a Master’s degree or demonstrating the equivalent. Widely recognized performers and/or academicians in the field of jazz who teach on a regular basis.
Adjunct Professor: Resident faculty holding the minimum of a Master’s degree or demonstrating the equivalent. Widely recognized performers and/or academicians in the field of jazz who teach on occasion.
Instructor: Resident faculty holding the minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or demonstrating the equivalent. Widely recognized performers and/or academicians in the field of jazz who give applied lessons on a regular basis.
Visiting Professor: Non-resident, nationally or Internationally renowned performers and/or academicians who teach on occasion.
FACULTY CLASSIFICATIONS
Full-time: A course load of 12 classroom hours / week and a load of up to 18 private studio instruction hours / week taught on a consistent basis by resident faculty.
Part-time: A course load of less than 12 classroom hours / week and up to 18 private studio instruction hours / week taught on a consistent basis by resident faculty.
Adjunct: A course load of less than 12 classroom hours / week taught on an intermittent basis by resident faculty.
Instructor: An indeterminate course load of applied lessons taught on a consistent basis by resident faculty.
Visiting: A course load of a determinate number of classroom hours / week taught for a determinate period of time by non-resident faculty.